One-Eyed Richmond Forum
Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: wayne on August 22, 2007, 09:27:50 AM
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Warwick Green
August 22, 2007
HE'S a Brownlow medallist, premiership player and All-Australian captain: there's not much Mark Ricciuto hasn't achieved in football. So do you reckon Richmond would have liked to have got its hands on him before he'd even played a game? Just a little bit. And for one glorious day in 1992, Tigers insiders dared to dream that the impressive teenager might be headed to Punt Road. It may well be the greatest trade that never happened. A couple of seasons earlier, Richmond had drafted South Australian ruckman/forward Brett Chalmers, but he refused to cross the border and was simply filling a spot on its list. The then Richmond general manager, Cameron Schwab, recalled that the fledgling Crows were showing considerable interest in trading for Chalmers. "It was one of probably 100 discussions that you have in trade week," Schwab said yesterday. "But we raised the name of a kid who showed a fair bit of promise — we thought that mightn't be a bad deal, a stocky teenage midfielder for a towering key-position player." The mature-bodied Ricciuto was an under-17 All-Australian and had some big wraps on him. "The Crows rang us back later and said, 'No thanks'," Schwab said.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/sport/the-crow-the-tigers-were-left-to-roo/2007/08/21/1187462265210.html
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Why did we always have so much trouble luring players from South Australia in the late 80's early 90's?
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Why did we always have so much trouble luring players from South Australia in the late 80's early 90's?
We had no money!
We still managed to get Paul Bulluss across, Daffy, Rogers and Jamie Tape were all early 90's. Strangely I remember Todd Menegola coming from SA to play for us when no other SA's would come over...
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The rules were different for South Aussies back in the late 80's/early 90's. They didn't have to come over even if drafted and a lot were hoping to stay home and play for the Crows. Richmond drafted Brett Chalmers with a late pick (#103) and then hoped to persuade him to change his mind. We didn't lose that one in hindsight as he didn't live up to his reputation playing for the Crows.
DC you're right about Tape, Rogers and Bulluss. We got all three in the one draft in 1992 (Richo's draft). We also picked up in that draft Robert Schaefer and Mark Jones from SA.
Todd Menegola was from WA (Swan Districts) in the 1990 draft.
http://oneeyed-richmond.com/draft_history.htm
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Jono should ring his pal up and see if theres any interest in working here with the Tiges?
Could you imagine, the Roo would be one hell of midfield brain to have around our kids :thumbsup
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Todd Menegola was from WA ...
Always thought Todd Menegola was a good name for a Columbian drug boss. :lol
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Yeah, Todd is a sandeater rather than a crowgroper. 8)
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Ricciuto will one day make a very very good senior coach at a club.